I really do despair of youths!!!!

[Whealie]

and down in dorset, you got idiots doing things like this

BBC NEWS | England | Dorset | Three boys held over fawn killing

Thee lads kick a fawn's head and 100 people phone the police. Three lads kick another kid's head in and no bugger would help at all.

[winxp-master]

playing that tinny **** music from their mobile phones

Arrrrg man that winds me up so much it drives me round the FOOOKIN bend that!!!

Best thing is, it sounds SH!T... do they realise that no matter what song you play on a mobile phone sounds... SH!T...

[Chad]

feck me tom , im feeling a bit psycopathic at the mo shall i come up we can do a bit of hunting

penny to a pound the little **** wouldnt have been so cocky if he wasnt dealing with a little pixie man **** like this boils my piss its about time society started pulling itsself together and sorting these ****s out. and if some bleeding heart tree hugger starts moaning, kick them in the spods as well

[winxp-master]

and if some bleeding heart tree hugger starts moaning, kick them in the spods as well

fekin aye!!!

[StumpyFingers]

feck me tom , im feeling a bit psycopathic at the mo shall i come up we can do a bit of hunting

penny to a pound the little **** wouldnt have been so cocky if he wasnt dealing with a little pixie man **** like this boils my piss its about time society started pulling itsself together and sorting these ****s out. and if some bleeding heart tree hugger starts moaning, kick them in the spods as well

I am with you.
I have to deal with lippy ***** all the time, I pointed out to one of them I am not always driving a bus They are always using them.
It would not take me too much effort to find and deal justice when they least expect it.

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It would not take me too much effort to find and deal justice when they least expect it.

fek me it's Paul Kersey lol

[Monsieur]

Interesting thread.
I think that most of us males on here can easily 'think' what we would do in this situation. Like most of you on here I'm over 40, unfit and used to good food and drink.. When I was younger I would have squared up to those 3 lads. Nowadays my latent aggression would have to be harnessed in a particular way. There is no way I could last more than 30 seconds against 3 young, fit and streetwise teenagers. They would maybe have been carrying knives.
I know what I 'would like to think I could do to them'. Reality would be somewhat different. I would like to think I would punch the ringleader to the ground and the other 2 would scarper sharpish. I would probably be very aggressive until the adrenalin wore off then I would become a quivering wreck.
I hope I never, ever have to face that same sort of situation. Maybe if I had one of my children with me then the fatherly protective factor would kick in and I'd become an overweight Charles Bronson or Vinny Jones.
In real life I would probably become another stabbing statistic.
Thank god I live in a relatively quiet and safe village

[Sharribee]

Tom I can't imagine how frightened your poor little one was at this confrontation. What she did see was her dad not backing down or giving in to these arse holes, but standing his ground in a controlled and non-violent way, this will teach her a great deal about how to conduct herself and how to deal with bullies.

You gave her a great message by not retaliating, I bet your her hero

Please give her a big hug from Caitie M and me

[alpslapper]

Tom I can't imagine how frightened your poor little one was at this confrontation. What she did see was her dad not backing down or giving in to these arse holes, but standing his ground in a controlled and non-violent way, this will teach her a great deal about how to conduct herself and how to deal with bullies.

You gave her a great message by not retaliating, I bet your her hero

Please give her a big hug from Caitie M and me

Will do.

At the end of the day, no harm was done.

Like you say, in the end, they walked away from me, despite everything they were threatening. But I know all too well it could have been a very different story.

When I see a child, it makes me smile. If I make eye contact with them I just instinctively wave or make a funny face.

What is going on in these guys heads and lives that they threaten to stab, mash up, and slash a father in front of his nine year old?

Why are they so angry with everything that they prowl around like ferral dogs looking for victims in broad day light?

Do they really have nothing to look forward to except jail or death?

I understand completely the sentiments expressed to administer swift justice on the spot. Believe me, it took every iota of self control to stay calm with them. But I honestly believe that had I floored one, two or three of them, they'd just simply be back with a bigger gang for their next victim. If they weren't carrying a knife, they'd make sure they were the next time.

I really want to believe a good kicking would sort them out. But I know it wouldn't. They would just take it out more savagly on their next victim.

I don't know what the answer is - but just this second, I've got a text re the longest day, and with only 4 sleeps left to go till I get to do a fantastic ride, with some brillant guys and gals, for a wonderful charity, and having just tucked my two up in bed, my despair for the future of mankind is lifting

[stageonesimmo]

You gave her a great message by not retaliating, I bet your her hero

Well put. I've had several conflabs with the local feds and every time they remind me that its just not worth it to get into anything with these little scumbags and they are right - several have been on the end of the calm softly spoken message that I know where they live and can get at them any time I want - they go especially quiet when I remind them that Angus across the road is an old Army buddy of mine and he'll be tagging along with me..........

Angus is ex-22 int and ex-SAS! And they all know it. I think some of them think that means I am too! It goes in cycles around here though - the last summer's crop of loons are now old enough to pass as legal in the pub so dont hang around much, but now we have a new crop and some of them are getting over-due a bit of a talking too. Might have to polish the pick-axe handle in readiness..............

Thing that amazes me is the age of some of them - most of the noisiest most drunk idiots can't be older than 14 - and they wander about doing the music on the mobile shouting at each other, pissing in the road, (including the 'girls'!), throwing empty bottles over fences/at cars and bragging about having drunk a whole bottle of 'vod' and another of 'bucky' - at 14 FFS! I would video some of it so you could all see what I'm on about, but its prolly against their 'human' rights...........